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* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Van]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Pelt]] goes to a [[ArmsDealer gun shop]] to get more ammo, and then a new gun upon learning his model of gun is obsolete. The store clerk initially tells Van Pelt that he'll need to submit to a background check and sign some paperwork, but changes his tune when Val Pelt [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney drops some gold coins]] in front of him. For what it's worth, the clerk [[EverybodyHasStandards does ask if Van Pelt is a]] [[GoingPostal postal worker]] before finalizing the sale.
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* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Van]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Pelt]] goes to a [[ArmsDealer gun shop]] to get more ammo, and then a new gun upon learning his model of gun is obsolete. The store clerk initially tells Van Pelt that he'll need to submit to a background check and sign some paperwork, but changes his tune when Val Pelt [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney [[EveryManHasHisPrice drops some gold coins]] in front of him. For what it's worth, the clerk [[EverybodyHasStandards does ask if Van Pelt is a]] [[GoingPostal postal worker]] before finalizing the sale.
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Related to TheSlacker and ApatheticCitizens. This is often a first job for a BrattyTeenageDaughter. May result from working a SoulSuckingRetailJob. Overlaps with BurgerFool. In cases where the cashier is apathetic to nightmarish working conditions, this will become ConditionedToAcceptHorror. Contrast with CreepyGasStationAttendant, where a character working a menial job is PlayedForHorror as opposed to comedy. Also contrast HaughtyHelp, where people the people providing service are disdainful rather than apathetic.
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Related to TheSlacker and ApatheticCitizens. This is often a first job for a BrattyTeenageDaughter. May result from working a SoulSuckingRetailJob. Overlaps with BurgerFool. In cases where the cashier is apathetic to nightmarish working conditions, this will become ConditionedToAcceptHorror. Compare to the SuperStoicShopkeeper, who doesn't react to extreme events, but generally still does their job. Contrast with CreepyGasStationAttendant, where a character working a menial job is PlayedForHorror as opposed to comedy. Also contrast HaughtyHelp, where people the people providing service are disdainful rather than apathetic.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Gar's Bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything. On her first day, she was the complete opposite: nervous to the point of sweating profusely to please even the most [[UnsatifiableCustomer unsatifiable of customers]]. Mr. Gar taught her to learn how to assert herself and stand up to them after a particularly bad run-in, [[ALessonLearnedTooWell and she's never helped another customer since]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Gar's Bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything. On her first day, she was the complete opposite: nervous to the point of sweating profusely to please even the most [[UnsatifiableCustomer [[UnsatisfiableCustomer unsatifiable of customers]]. Mr. Gar taught her to learn how to assert herself and stand up to them after a particularly bad run-in, [[ALessonLearnedTooWell and she's never helped another customer since]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Gar's Bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything. On her first day, she was the complete opposite: nervous to the point of sweating profusely to please even the most unsatifyable of customers. Mr. Gar taught her to learn how to assert herself and stand up to them after a particularly bad run-in, [[ALessonLearnedTooWell and she's never helped another customer since]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Gar's Bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything. On her first day, she was the complete opposite: nervous to the point of sweating profusely to please even the most unsatifyable [[UnsatifiableCustomer unsatifiable of customers.customers]]. Mr. Gar taught her to learn how to assert herself and stand up to them after a particularly bad run-in, [[ALessonLearnedTooWell and she's never helped another customer since]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Gar's Bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything. On her first day, she was the complete opposite: nervous to the point of sweating profusely to please even the most unsatifyable of customers. Mr. Gar taught her to learn how to assert herself and stand up to them after a particularly bad run-in, [[GoneHorriblyRight and she's never helped another customer since]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Gar's Bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything. On her first day, she was the complete opposite: nervous to the point of sweating profusely to please even the most unsatifyable of customers. Mr. Gar taught her to learn how to assert herself and stand up to them after a particularly bad run-in, [[GoneHorriblyRight [[ALessonLearnedTooWell and she's never helped another customer since]].
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* Mentioned by Creator/DavidCross, when talking about the over-saturation of advertising from McDonalds, and he suggests they not advertise for one day a month.
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Some times in fiction, cashiers and clerks will be portrayed as apathetic. Often bored with their job, they might not be aware of what's going on around them. Will likely get annoyed when asked to do work. Expect them to turn a blind eye to suspicious purchases, if they notice them at all. Won't stop children from buying age restricted items, (i.e. cigarettes and alcohol). Their personality will run the gamut from friendly and perky, but just doesn't like to do their job, to outright bitter and even [[{{Jerkass}} hostile to the customers]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': Darren isn't just apathetic, he's downright rude, commenting loudly that he "Fuggin' hates this job" and calling Camille a "MILF" not only to her face, but over the intercom.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': Darren isn't just apathetic, he's downright rude, commenting loudly that he "Fuggin' hates this job" and calling Camille a "MILF" not only to her face, but over the intercom.
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* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Van]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Pelt]] goes to a [[ArmsDealer gun shop]] to get more ammo, and then a new gun upon learning his model of gun is obsolete. The store clerk initially tells Van Pelt that he'll need to submit to a background check and sign some paperwork, but changes his tune when Val Pelt [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney drops some gold coins]] in front of him. For what it's worth, the clerk [[EverybodyHasStandards does ask if Van Pelt is a ]][[GoingPostal postal worker]] before finalizing the sale.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Carl the clerk at a local convenience store is a stereotypical stoner who is more interested in talking about movies than doing his job. In an episode where both Meg and Chris get a job working at the convenience store, he promotes Chris over the hard working Meg, because Chris also likes talking about movies. When Meg complains, he fires her.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Wendy is often this, meeting the crazy antics of Stan with either apathy or [[DeadpanSnarker snarky remarks]], and is usually [[TheSlacker slacking off with her friends or lazing around]] instead of doing any actual work at the register.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Wendy is often this, meeting the crazy antics of Stan with either apathy or [[DeadpanSnarker snarky remarks]], and is usually [[TheSlacker slacking off with her friends or lazing around]] instead of doing any actual work at the register.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Carl the clerk at a local convenience store is a stereotypical stoner who is more interested in talking about movies than doing his job. In an episode where both Meg and Chris get a job working at the convenience store, he promotes Chris over the hard working hard-working Meg, because Chris also likes talking about movies. When Meg complains, he fires her.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Wendy is often this, meeting the crazy antics of Stan with either apathy or [[DeadpanSnarker snarky remarks]], and is usually [[TheSlacker slacking off with her friends or lazing around]] instead of doing any actual work at the register.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Wendy is often this, meeting the crazy antics of Stan with either apathy or [[DeadpanSnarker snarky remarks]], and is usually [[TheSlacker slacking off with her friends or lazing around]] instead of doing any actual work at the register.
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* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Van]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Pelt]] goes to a [[ArmsDealer gun shop]] to get more ammo, and then a new gun upon learning his model of gun is obsolete. The store clerk initially tells Van Pelt that he'll need to submit to a background and sign some paperwork, but changes his tune when Val Pelt [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney drops some gold coins]] in front of him. For what it's worth, the clerk [[EverybodyHasStandards does ask if Van Pelt is a ]][[GoingPostal postal worker]] before finalizing the sale.
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* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Van]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Pelt]] goes to a [[ArmsDealer gun shop]] to get more ammo, and then a new gun upon learning his model of gun is obsolete. The store clerk initially tells Van Pelt that he'll need to submit to a background check and sign some paperwork, but changes his tune when Val Pelt [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney drops some gold coins]] in front of him. For what it's worth, the clerk [[EverybodyHasStandards does ask if Van Pelt is a ]][[GoingPostal postal worker]] before finalizing the sale.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Mr. Gar's bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Mr. Gar's bodega Bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything. On her first day, she was the complete opposite: nervous to the point of sweating profusely to please even the most unsatifyable of customers. Mr. Gar taught her to learn how to assert herself and stand up to them after a particularly bad run-in, [[GoneHorriblyRight and she's never helped another customer since]].
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Related to TheSlacker and ApatheticCitizens. This is often a first job for a BrattyTeenageDaughter. May result from working a SoulSuckingRetailJob. Overlaps with BurgerFool. In cases where the cashier is apathetic to nightmarish working conditions, this will become ConditionedToAcceptHorror. Contrast with CreepyGasStationAttendant, where a character working a menial job is PlayedForHorror as opposed to comedy.
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Related to TheSlacker and ApatheticCitizens. This is often a first job for a BrattyTeenageDaughter. May result from working a SoulSuckingRetailJob. Overlaps with BurgerFool. In cases where the cashier is apathetic to nightmarish working conditions, this will become ConditionedToAcceptHorror. Contrast with CreepyGasStationAttendant, where a character working a menial job is PlayedForHorror as opposed to comedy.
comedy. Also contrast HaughtyHelp, where people the people providing service are disdainful rather than apathetic.
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* ''Series/ShamelessUS'': A dark version of this trope appears when Fiona gets a job as a check out girl. [[BadBoss Her manager]] tells her if she wants her job, she'll have to give him oral sex. She manages to record their conversation and blackmails him into giving him the job. However, she learns that the manager is forcing the other female cashiers to perform oral sex. She gets them all together to discuss coming forward and getting the manager fired. Some are on board with this, but others are against it, claiming [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror it's not that bad]]. One points out the manager [[PetTheDog let's them take sick days when they aren't sick]], which his [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow replacement might not do]]. In the end, they put it to a vote and decide against turning in their manager. To make things worse, the other cashiers turn on Fiona after learning she hasn't performed oral sex on their manager, feeling that she's not pulling her weight.
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* ''Series/ShamelessUS'': A dark version of this trope appears when Fiona gets a job as a check out girl. [[BadBoss Her manager]] tells her if she wants her job, she'll have to give him oral sex. She manages to record their conversation and blackmails him into giving him the job. However, she learns that the manager is forcing the other female cashiers to perform oral sex. She gets them all together to discuss coming forward and getting the manager fired. Some are on board with this, but others are against it, claiming [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror it's not that bad]]. One points out the manager [[PetTheDog let's lets them take sick days when they aren't sick]], which his [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow replacement might not do]]. In the end, they put it to a vote and decide against turning in their manager. To make things worse, the other cashiers turn on Fiona after learning she hasn't performed oral sex on their manager, feeling that she's not pulling her weight.
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* A convenience store clerk in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' remains unaware of the two heavily armed men engaged in a shoot out behind him because he is playing an arcade game and listening to music through headphones ''whilst at work!''.
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* A convenience store clerk in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' remains unaware of the two heavily armed men engaged in a shoot out behind him because he is playing an arcade game and listening to music through headphones whilst at work.
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* In the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series:
** Phyllis, who works at either Town Hall or the Post Office depending on the game, is a ''complete'' jerk who is crass, rude, and loudly complains about having to do her job when you come in.
** Played with at the Able Sisters tailor shop with Sable, who is quite rude and quiet to you when you first come in. If you keep coming in to use their shop and keep talking to her however she'll slowly warm up to you, begin sharing intimate details about her life, and eventually become more friendly than her sister, revealing that she's just [[ShrinkingViolet incredibly shy]] rather than apathetic.
** Phyllis, who works at either Town Hall or the Post Office depending on the game, is a ''complete'' jerk who is crass, rude, and loudly complains about having to do her job when you come in.
** Played with at the Able Sisters tailor shop with Sable, who is quite rude and quiet to you when you first come in. If you keep coming in to use their shop and keep talking to her however she'll slowly warm up to you, begin sharing intimate details about her life, and eventually become more friendly than her sister, revealing that she's just [[ShrinkingViolet incredibly shy]] rather than apathetic.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': After being being exposed to Joker's laughing gas and thrown into a vat of chemicals, news anchor Jack Ryder is transformed into ''ComicBook/TheCreeper''. One of his first acts is to go to a clothing store in order to make his superhero costume. He manages to scare everyone out of the store, except for a store clerk who watches him as he finds his costume and asks how he'll pay in a monotone voice. Despite her total screen time being less than a minute, fans have named her [[MemeticBystander Thrifty]]. Given she works in [[WretchedHive Gotham City]], [[FridgeBrilliance she probably has a high tolerance for weirdness]].
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** After being being exposed to Joker's laughing gas and thrown into a vat of chemicals, news anchor Jack Ryder is transformed into ''ComicBook/TheCreeper''. One of his first acts is to go to a clothing store in order to make his superhero costume. He manages to scare everyone out of the store, except for a store clerk who watches him as he finds his costume and asks how he'll pay in a monotone voice. Despite her total screen time being less than a minute, fans have named her [[MemeticBystander Thrifty]]. Given she works in [[WretchedHive Gotham City]], [[FridgeBrilliance she probably has a high tolerance forweirdness]].weirdness]].
** Similarly is the bartender of the [[BadGuyBar Stacked Deck]], who is ''completely'' desensitized to violence and costumed weirdos since his place is frequented by mobsters, henchmen, and even super criminals. When a riot and gunfight breaks out, he simply slumps on the counter to watch the show and [[PassThePopcorn slides a bowl of peanuts toward himself]].
** After being being exposed to Joker's laughing gas and thrown into a vat of chemicals, news anchor Jack Ryder is transformed into ''ComicBook/TheCreeper''. One of his first acts is to go to a clothing store in order to make his superhero costume. He manages to scare everyone out of the store, except for a store clerk who watches him as he finds his costume and asks how he'll pay in a monotone voice. Despite her total screen time being less than a minute, fans have named her [[MemeticBystander Thrifty]]. Given she works in [[WretchedHive Gotham City]], [[FridgeBrilliance she probably has a high tolerance for
** Similarly is the bartender of the [[BadGuyBar Stacked Deck]], who is ''completely'' desensitized to violence and costumed weirdos since his place is frequented by mobsters, henchmen, and even super criminals. When a riot and gunfight breaks out, he simply slumps on the counter to watch the show and [[PassThePopcorn slides a bowl of peanuts toward himself]].
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-->''Maybe then, next time I go in, I won't have to deal with some understandably pissed nineteen year old who'sd thinking, "Can anyone explain to me why I shouldn't be selling drugs?"''
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* Mentioned by Creator/DavidCross, when talking about the over-saturation of advertising from McDonalds, and he suggests they not advertise for one day a month.
-->''Maybe then, next time I go in, I won't have to deal with some understandably pissed nineteen year old who'sd thinking, "Can anyone explain to me why I shouldn't be selling drugs?"''
* Mentioned by Creator/DavidCross, when talking about the over-saturation of advertising from McDonalds, and he suggests they not advertise for one day a month.
-->''Maybe then, next time I go in, I won't have to deal with some understandably pissed nineteen year old who'sd thinking, "Can anyone explain to me why I shouldn't be selling drugs?"''
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!!Potential Indexes
* ApathyIndex
* CharactersAsDevice
* ComedyTropes
* LoserArchetype (Many of these examples are portrayed as stereotypical losers)
* NeutralityIndex
* SelfishnessTropes
* StockCharacters
* TeenageTropes (Many examples will be teenagers)
* OccupationTropes
* ApathyIndex
* CharactersAsDevice
* ComedyTropes
* LoserArchetype (Many of these examples are portrayed as stereotypical losers)
* NeutralityIndex
* SelfishnessTropes
* StockCharacters
* TeenageTropes (Many examples will be teenagers)
* OccupationTropes
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* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has Burgerpants, who [[StepfordSmiler keeps up a paper-thin smiling facade]] until you buy something from him... then drops it for a DeadpanSnarker attitude and a complete apathy towards his job.
-->''"Don't be like me, kid. I'm nineteen years old and I've already wasted my life."''
-->''"Don't be like me, kid. I'm nineteen years old and I've already wasted my life."''
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Some times in fiction, cashiers and clerks will be portrayed as apathetic. Often bored with their job, they might not be aware of what's going on around them. Will likely get annoyed when asked to do work. Expect them to turn a blind eye to suspicious purchases, if they notice them at all. Won't stop children from buying age restricted items, (i.e. cigarettes and alcohol). Their personality will run the gamut from friendly and perky, but just doesn't like to do their job, to outright bitter and even [[{{Jerkass}} hostile to the customers]].
Related to TheSlacker and ApatheticCitizens. This is often a first job for a BrattyTeenageDaughter. May result from working a SoulSuckingRetailJob. Overlaps with BurgerFool. In cases where the cashier is apathetic to nightmarish working conditions, this will become ConditionedToAcceptHorror. Contrast with CreepyGasStationAttendant, where a character working a menial job is PlayedForHorror as opposed to comedy.
!!Potential Indexes
*ApathyIndex
*CharactersAsDevice
*ComedyTropes
*LoserArchetype (Many of these examples are portrayed as stereotypical losers)
*NeutralityIndex
*SelfishnessTropes
*StockCharacters
*TeenageTropes (Many examples will be teenagers)
*OccupationTropes
!! Examples
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*''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': In episode 3 (Chapter 3 of the manga) there is a scene with a convenience store clerk standing behind the counter in an open-mouthed daze, somehow apparently oblivious to all the chaos currently happening while a zombie shuffles across the road towards him until it is hit by the bus the protagonists are driving. The clerk doesn't even bother to turn his head or even notice it all happening a few feet away from him.
* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Upon hearing that CosplayOtakuGirl Konata has gotten a part-time job to pay for her trip to a convention, Kagami and Tsukasa discuss what kind of job would even suit her. They imagine a bookstore cashier, where she ignores customers in favor of her manga and gets prizes from the merchandise, a convenience store cashier, where she speaks quickly and slurs her words to get things over with, a fast food cashier and family restaurant waitress, where her deadpan expression would cause problems. When Konata tells them she's a waitress at a cosplay cafe, they agree it suits her perfectly.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'': One issue had a comic strip titled ''Lazy Disinterested 16 Year Old Shoe Shop Girl'', featuring a 16 year old cashier who showed more interest in her mobile phone and blowing bubbles with her bubble gum than she did in serving customers.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': Darren isn't just apathetic, he's downright rude, commenting loudly that he "Fuggin' hates this job" and calling Camille a "MILF" not only to her face, but over the intercom.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': This is basically the [[PlanetOfHats hat]] of the sloths. They are so insanely slow at doing their jobs and seemingly lazy that it makes it impossible for them to be a help to the investigation, especially as it turns out in the end that [[spoiler:they apparently are capable of moving much faster, just when they choose to.]]
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* ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'': The girl at the front desk of the tanning salon is a bubbly/[[TheDitz ditzy]] version of this trope. After Nora bumps her head and starts bleeding, she finds the girl at the front desk listening to music instead of doing her job. The girl is clearly annoyed when Nora asks for a band-aid. When Nora also asks for a towel, she gets frustrated and tells Nora to "Make up your mind!"
*''Film/{{Clerks}}'': Dante and Randall both don't seem to care about their jobs working in a convenience store and video store; while Dante hates working there, Randall enjoys its undemanding nature and notes that his job would be perfect if it wasn't for the customers.
* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Van]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Pelt]] goes to a [[ArmsDealer gun shop]] to get more ammo, and then a new gun upon learning his model of gun is obsolete. The store clerk initially tells Van Pelt that he'll need to submit to a background and sign some paperwork, but changes his tune when Val Pelt [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney drops some gold coins]] in front of him. For what it's worth, the clerk [[EverybodyHasStandards does ask if Van Pelt is a ]][[GoingPostal postal worker]] before finalizing the sale.
*''Film/YoungAdult'': The young female clerk at the hotel where Mavis stays at her hometown is a classic example, never speaking above a monotone even when Mavis clearly sneaks a dog in a bag into her room.
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* In Creator/JohnUpdike's short story "A&P", Sammy hates his SoulSuckingRetailJob as a cashier, and he only perks up when Queenie and her friends -- in nothing but bikinis -- enter the store. His boss berates them, though, for not at least covering up their shoulders, and that is Sammy's tipping point. He quits right then and there out of frustration, despite acknowledging it to be a bad idea.
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* ''Series/RaisingHope'': Sabrina does not like her job as the check-out girl at the local Howdy's, often spending her days making [[DeadpanSnarker snarky comments]] about the store. In one episode, she even admits she feels like she's better than her coworkers, though this is driven by her [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex feelings of inferiority]] due to the fact her [[SecretlyWealthy rich friends]] went on to have more successful lives. Her attitude gets worse in an episode that looks at what would've happened if [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Hope were never born]]. In this timeline, Howdy's gets turned into a liquor store where the female employees must wear revealing clothes. This hardens Sabrina's personality, causing her to get [[GagBoobs breast implants]] and start [[SexForServices turning tricks at the store]].
* ''Series/ShamelessUS'': A dark version of this trope appears when Fiona gets a job as a check out girl. [[BadBoss Her manager]] tells her if she wants her job, she'll have to give him oral sex. She manages to record their conversation and blackmails him into giving him the job. However, she learns that the manager is forcing the other female cashiers to perform oral sex. She gets them all together to discuss coming forward and getting the manager fired. Some are on board with this, but others are against it, claiming [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror it's not that bad]]. One points out the manager [[PetTheDog let's them take sick days when they aren't sick]], which his [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow replacement might not do]]. In the end, they put it to a vote and decide against turning in their manager. To make things worse, the other cashiers turn on Fiona after learning she hasn't performed oral sex on their manager, feeling that she's not pulling her weight.
* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'': There's a series of sketches on [[Series/SoRandom So]][[ShowWithinAShow Random]] called "The Check Out Girls", which is about two stereotypical [[ValleyGirl Valley Girls]] who work as cashiers. They spend most of their time talking to each other and insulting the customers. In one skit, they nonchalantly react to someone trying to rob them at gunpoint.
[[AC: Music]]
* "Konbini" by Brief & Trunks is about a teen who who goes to a convenience store late at night. The song makes it clear that the clerk is a bored part-timer with a stoic expression.
[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': Slater works the night shift at a convenience store and therefore thinks nothing of promoting his GarageBand on the clock or of [[FriendInTheBlackMarket selling you weapons on the side]] -- in fact, you can't buy his nominal employer's products from him.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': After being being exposed to Joker's laughing gas and thrown into a vat of chemicals, news anchor Jack Ryder is transformed into ''ComicBook/TheCreeper''. One of his first acts is to go to a clothing store in order to make his superhero costume. He manages to scare everyone out of the store, except for a store clerk who watches him as he finds his costume and asks how he'll pay in a monotone voice. Despite her total screen time being less than a minute, fans have named her [[MemeticBystander Thrifty]]. Given she works in [[WretchedHive Gotham City]], [[FridgeBrilliance she probably has a high tolerance for weirdness]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Carl the clerk at a local convenience store is a stereotypical stoner who is more interested in talking about movies than doing his job. In an episode where both Meg and Chris get a job working at the convenience store, he promotes Chris over the hard working Meg, because Chris also likes talking about movies. When Meg complains, he fires her.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Wendy is often this, meeting the crazy antics of Stan with either apathy or [[DeadpanSnarker snarky remarks]], and is usually [[TheSlacker slacking off with her friends or lazing around]] instead of doing any actual work at the register.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Mr. Gar's bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything.
*''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
**Squidward is the cashier at the Krusty Krab, and he hates every minute of it. Along with having [=SpongeBob=] annoying him from the kitchen, he has to deal with indecisive customers and watch them gorge on unhealthy, lowbrow food. He treats everyone with contempt and speaks in a deadpan monotone while at work, never smiling; the one time he smiled at work was when the Krusty Krab was briefly rebranded as the Krabby O'Mondays and he was forced to smile, lest he be sent to the Complaints Department (a big scary thug).
**When [=SpongeBob=] was shopping at a store, he starts talking to an cashier who isn't happy to see him. During this exchange, [=SpongeBob=] pulls out a picture of how the cashier looked on his first day, happy and cheerful, in contrast to his current behavior.
**Another episode had a cashier who didn't react at all to [=SpongeBob=] running and crying in and out of the store as he kept coming back for more nightlights.
**Yet another episode had a cashier calmly putting up with [[TheScrooge Mr. Krabs]] attempting to use several expired coupons on his purchase.
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Some times in fiction, cashiers and clerks will be portrayed as apathetic. Often bored with their job, they might not be aware of what's going on around them. Will likely get annoyed when asked to do work. Expect them to turn a blind eye to suspicious purchases, if they notice them at all. Won't stop children from buying age restricted items, (i.e. cigarettes and alcohol). Their personality will run the gamut from friendly and perky, but just doesn't like to do their job, to outright bitter and even [[{{Jerkass}} hostile to the customers]].
Related to TheSlacker and ApatheticCitizens. This is often a first job for a BrattyTeenageDaughter. May result from working a SoulSuckingRetailJob. Overlaps with BurgerFool. In cases where the cashier is apathetic to nightmarish working conditions, this will become ConditionedToAcceptHorror. Contrast with CreepyGasStationAttendant, where a character working a menial job is PlayedForHorror as opposed to comedy.
!!Potential Indexes
*ApathyIndex
*CharactersAsDevice
*ComedyTropes
*LoserArchetype (Many of these examples are portrayed as stereotypical losers)
*NeutralityIndex
*SelfishnessTropes
*StockCharacters
*TeenageTropes (Many examples will be teenagers)
*OccupationTropes
!! Examples
[[AC: Anime and Manga]]
*''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': In episode 3 (Chapter 3 of the manga) there is a scene with a convenience store clerk standing behind the counter in an open-mouthed daze, somehow apparently oblivious to all the chaos currently happening while a zombie shuffles across the road towards him until it is hit by the bus the protagonists are driving. The clerk doesn't even bother to turn his head or even notice it all happening a few feet away from him.
* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Upon hearing that CosplayOtakuGirl Konata has gotten a part-time job to pay for her trip to a convention, Kagami and Tsukasa discuss what kind of job would even suit her. They imagine a bookstore cashier, where she ignores customers in favor of her manga and gets prizes from the merchandise, a convenience store cashier, where she speaks quickly and slurs her words to get things over with, a fast food cashier and family restaurant waitress, where her deadpan expression would cause problems. When Konata tells them she's a waitress at a cosplay cafe, they agree it suits her perfectly.
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'': One issue had a comic strip titled ''Lazy Disinterested 16 Year Old Shoe Shop Girl'', featuring a 16 year old cashier who showed more interest in her mobile phone and blowing bubbles with her bubble gum than she did in serving customers.
[[AC: Films Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': Darren isn't just apathetic, he's downright rude, commenting loudly that he "Fuggin' hates this job" and calling Camille a "MILF" not only to her face, but over the intercom.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': This is basically the [[PlanetOfHats hat]] of the sloths. They are so insanely slow at doing their jobs and seemingly lazy that it makes it impossible for them to be a help to the investigation, especially as it turns out in the end that [[spoiler:they apparently are capable of moving much faster, just when they choose to.]]
[[AC: Films Live-Action]]
* ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'': The girl at the front desk of the tanning salon is a bubbly/[[TheDitz ditzy]] version of this trope. After Nora bumps her head and starts bleeding, she finds the girl at the front desk listening to music instead of doing her job. The girl is clearly annoyed when Nora asks for a band-aid. When Nora also asks for a towel, she gets frustrated and tells Nora to "Make up your mind!"
*''Film/{{Clerks}}'': Dante and Randall both don't seem to care about their jobs working in a convenience store and video store; while Dante hates working there, Randall enjoys its undemanding nature and notes that his job would be perfect if it wasn't for the customers.
* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Van]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Pelt]] goes to a [[ArmsDealer gun shop]] to get more ammo, and then a new gun upon learning his model of gun is obsolete. The store clerk initially tells Van Pelt that he'll need to submit to a background and sign some paperwork, but changes his tune when Val Pelt [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney drops some gold coins]] in front of him. For what it's worth, the clerk [[EverybodyHasStandards does ask if Van Pelt is a ]][[GoingPostal postal worker]] before finalizing the sale.
*''Film/YoungAdult'': The young female clerk at the hotel where Mavis stays at her hometown is a classic example, never speaking above a monotone even when Mavis clearly sneaks a dog in a bag into her room.
[[AC:Literature]]
* In Creator/JohnUpdike's short story "A&P", Sammy hates his SoulSuckingRetailJob as a cashier, and he only perks up when Queenie and her friends -- in nothing but bikinis -- enter the store. His boss berates them, though, for not at least covering up their shoulders, and that is Sammy's tipping point. He quits right then and there out of frustration, despite acknowledging it to be a bad idea.
[[AC: Live-Action Television]]
* ''Series/RaisingHope'': Sabrina does not like her job as the check-out girl at the local Howdy's, often spending her days making [[DeadpanSnarker snarky comments]] about the store. In one episode, she even admits she feels like she's better than her coworkers, though this is driven by her [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex feelings of inferiority]] due to the fact her [[SecretlyWealthy rich friends]] went on to have more successful lives. Her attitude gets worse in an episode that looks at what would've happened if [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Hope were never born]]. In this timeline, Howdy's gets turned into a liquor store where the female employees must wear revealing clothes. This hardens Sabrina's personality, causing her to get [[GagBoobs breast implants]] and start [[SexForServices turning tricks at the store]].
* ''Series/ShamelessUS'': A dark version of this trope appears when Fiona gets a job as a check out girl. [[BadBoss Her manager]] tells her if she wants her job, she'll have to give him oral sex. She manages to record their conversation and blackmails him into giving him the job. However, she learns that the manager is forcing the other female cashiers to perform oral sex. She gets them all together to discuss coming forward and getting the manager fired. Some are on board with this, but others are against it, claiming [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror it's not that bad]]. One points out the manager [[PetTheDog let's them take sick days when they aren't sick]], which his [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow replacement might not do]]. In the end, they put it to a vote and decide against turning in their manager. To make things worse, the other cashiers turn on Fiona after learning she hasn't performed oral sex on their manager, feeling that she's not pulling her weight.
* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'': There's a series of sketches on [[Series/SoRandom So]][[ShowWithinAShow Random]] called "The Check Out Girls", which is about two stereotypical [[ValleyGirl Valley Girls]] who work as cashiers. They spend most of their time talking to each other and insulting the customers. In one skit, they nonchalantly react to someone trying to rob them at gunpoint.
[[AC: Music]]
* "Konbini" by Brief & Trunks is about a teen who who goes to a convenience store late at night. The song makes it clear that the clerk is a bored part-timer with a stoic expression.
[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': Slater works the night shift at a convenience store and therefore thinks nothing of promoting his GarageBand on the clock or of [[FriendInTheBlackMarket selling you weapons on the side]] -- in fact, you can't buy his nominal employer's products from him.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': After being being exposed to Joker's laughing gas and thrown into a vat of chemicals, news anchor Jack Ryder is transformed into ''ComicBook/TheCreeper''. One of his first acts is to go to a clothing store in order to make his superhero costume. He manages to scare everyone out of the store, except for a store clerk who watches him as he finds his costume and asks how he'll pay in a monotone voice. Despite her total screen time being less than a minute, fans have named her [[MemeticBystander Thrifty]]. Given she works in [[WretchedHive Gotham City]], [[FridgeBrilliance she probably has a high tolerance for weirdness]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Carl the clerk at a local convenience store is a stereotypical stoner who is more interested in talking about movies than doing his job. In an episode where both Meg and Chris get a job working at the convenience store, he promotes Chris over the hard working Meg, because Chris also likes talking about movies. When Meg complains, he fires her.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Wendy is often this, meeting the crazy antics of Stan with either apathy or [[DeadpanSnarker snarky remarks]], and is usually [[TheSlacker slacking off with her friends or lazing around]] instead of doing any actual work at the register.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid puts as little effort into her job at Mr. Gar's bodega as possible. She prefers to lounge around rather than help customers with anything.
*''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
**Squidward is the cashier at the Krusty Krab, and he hates every minute of it. Along with having [=SpongeBob=] annoying him from the kitchen, he has to deal with indecisive customers and watch them gorge on unhealthy, lowbrow food. He treats everyone with contempt and speaks in a deadpan monotone while at work, never smiling; the one time he smiled at work was when the Krusty Krab was briefly rebranded as the Krabby O'Mondays and he was forced to smile, lest he be sent to the Complaints Department (a big scary thug).
**When [=SpongeBob=] was shopping at a store, he starts talking to an cashier who isn't happy to see him. During this exchange, [=SpongeBob=] pulls out a picture of how the cashier looked on his first day, happy and cheerful, in contrast to his current behavior.
**Another episode had a cashier who didn't react at all to [=SpongeBob=] running and crying in and out of the store as he kept coming back for more nightlights.
**Yet another episode had a cashier calmly putting up with [[TheScrooge Mr. Krabs]] attempting to use several expired coupons on his purchase.
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